A Brooklyn heart surgeon who got paid $1.2 million while racking up the state’s second-worst death rate has been found guilty of medical malpractice in the 2001 death of a 70-year-old patient.

A jury found that Dr. Israel Jacobowitz, the former SUNY Downstate Hospital chief of cardiothoracic surgery and the subject of a 2003 Post investigation, departed from “good and accepted standards of medical practice” when he tried a technique he wasn’t credentialed to use, causing the death of patient Evangeline Johnson.

But the March 21 Brooklyn Supreme Court verdict awarded Johnson’s family just $56,000 after the judge ruled that jurors could not award damages for pain and suffering though Johnson suffered a brain injury during the surgery and lingered a week before expiring.

The money was granted for funeral expenses and “loss of parental guidance.”

“The jury wanted to award pain and suffering, but the judge wouldn’t allow it,” said lawyer Marvin Fuhrman, who represented the family and who said he’d appeal.

Jacobowitz continues to work a heavy caseload at Maimonides Hospital, which has even touted him in recent newspaper ads.